Identifying Themes In All Fall Down By Ally Carter

Day after day Grace is waking up and going to eat breakfast with a fake smile. Noah serves her very fancy food but she ends up not eating a lot of it. Grace always thinks everyday what her mother was like but never knew as Noah would never tell her. Nobody can ask Noah secret questions or he will get very angry. Apparently this is one of them for some reason that Grace did not

Everyone here at Northwestern, even though it is a Christian college, has a different view of faith. Some people put it above all and others only know the stories. In the novel Ordinary Grace, Krueger throws challenges at the Drum family. Each family member reacts differently to every challenge thrown at them and has their faith strengthened or destroyed. In William Krueger’s Ordinary Grace, he shows the different levels of faith from the strongest to the weakest, and how they react to different obstacles in life through Nathan, Frank, Jake, and Ruth.

In the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” O’Conner, tries to make us understand the meaning of grace. The Misfit and the Grandma are the two main characters that show us what grace is and how it can be applied to a person’s everyday life. In Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the Grandma tries to save her family by convincing them to visit a place she recommends to keep them away from the Misfit, whom with they later come in contact. Neither the Grandma nor the Misfit deserves grace but it is given to them anyway.

The Flawed series, Flawed and Perfect by Cecelia Ahern, takes us into a world with a society that looks down upon people for their mistakes, what they do wrong and if they are considered different from others. When placed in a situation to help a dying man on the ride to school, out of all the people staying put watching him suffer, only Celestine chose to do the right thing and help the man into a seat. Celestine risked her entire reputation to help the man which was unacceptable according to the people in her society. The theme that these books suggest is that being selfless in our society can be very difficult especially when most people are looking for acceptance from others, but when we look past that and take it upon ourselves to be

Many live under the assumption that those who come to the United States want to become Americanized and assimilate to the melting pot our culture has formed into. This is the populations ethnocentric belief, which is the belief that the ways of one’s culture are superior to the ways of a different culture, that wants others to melt into the western ways. In Ann Faidman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Faidman fails to completely remain objective when demonstrating how cross-cultural misunderstandings create issues in the healthcare field, specifically between the Hmong and western cultures that created dire consequences between the Lee’s and their American doctors. Faidman uses her connections with the Hmong and the doctors who cared for them in order to disclose the different views, beliefs and practices the Hmong and Western cultures practiced. With her attempt to be culturally relative to the situation, Faidman discusses the series of events and reasons as to why the Lee’s faced the fate that they did and how it parallels to the ethnocentrism in the health care system.

The narrative, Grace is a Gift, is about If you are a good student and forget to bring something, the teacher might still let you do what the other class gets to do. Accept others graciousness towards you and give graciousness towards people.

"All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal."—Flannery O'Connor.

Backing to Grace, Cosima meets with old friend Emelina, who corrects Cody’s memory and completes her memory about Dr. Homer and their neighbor Uda as well, and questions her past and gradually feels excluded from the community of Grace. After getting off the bus and standing in her hometown, when Cody arrives at her old friend Emelina’s house, she sees Emelina’s family killing the chicken. They make fun of their childhood by talking about Cody and Hallie’s behaviors when they were little. However, they hold different memories. In Cody’s memory, her sister has ab fit over the chickens and cries because of her soft heart, but Emelina points out, “No, I am sure it was you that had a fit over the chickens. You’d start, and then Hallie would do it too.” (Kingsolver 31). Cody misplaces her sister with herself in her memory, and she does not know that she is the one who has a soft heart and lea Hallie around. When Cody insists, “Blood all over the driveway and I did not faint.” (31), and she is the brave one back to the child, Emelina reports her by stating that people change, and the current life situation does not reflect childhood and

The Drop by: Jeff Ross, a novel about a group of teenagers. I think the main message is being brave and not giving up and keep trying again, because our weaknesses lie in giving up and the true success is to always try again. In chapter 12, Hope went down the drop but MISSED the spot where Sam told her to go to… In chapter 13, The temperature was like below 0, or frozen temperature, Alex and the group was freezing. Alex said he couldn't even move...In chapter 14, Alex woke up of a nightmare, dreaming about that he

In the novel, “All Fall Down” by Ally Carter, the themes included believing in yourself and feminism. The theme to believe in yourself was evident in the book when Grace would not back down from searching for the scarred man. Furthermore, despite people calling her crazy and saying that her mother’s death was an accident, she still continued to find evidence to prove people wrong and to bring the killer to justice. When people were disagreeing with her on page 111, she said, “But I do know. I know what, and I know who, and I know that I was right that night in the Iranian embassy.” Because she believed in herself and took action for what she believed in, she was able to find out more than she could have ever known if she were to conform with

Not only is “Never Fall Down” by Patricia McCormick one of the most provocative books I have read, It is an experience you need to have. This book explores a variety of topics that change my view on my

     Grace’s motives seem to be fairly simple, as they are based mostly on a love interest of Mr. Kinnear. Mr.

When she was younger Grace was attacked by wolves. Dragged off her swing set, the ripped at her, clawed, even bit her, trying to draw blood. There she lay, no fighting the wolves, but staring into the yellow eyes of the wolf that was not hurting her. Her parents took her to the hospital afterwards, got stiches and all was fine. Then Grace became ill. Running fever, throwing up, Grace was sick for about a week after her attack. Taking her into town, her father accidently leaves her in the back of the car, with another trip to the hospital, the doctor said the heat should have killed her, but she survived. Flash forward to present day, Grace is a great student, never misses a day, hang out with her two best friends, Rachel and Oliva, and basically

The episode opens with Grace alone at home, hearing a noise she calls out to daughter Zoe but gets no response. As Grace makes her way to the kitchen she grabs a glass of wine and some leftovers for dinner. While on the phone to Zoe, Grace assures her she is fine and that the arrest was just a big mix up. As Grace hangs up the phone a stocky man approaches her from behind and attempts to garrote her. In a fight across the house, Grace manages to subdue her attacker and then phones her father for help.

“Life is tough but darling so are you.”~Stephanie Bennett Henry. This quote relates to Graceling because we learn that Kasta can change from a strong independent women who will fight for he beliefs to a soft girl who loves to be told she is beautiful and dreams about a happy future. In the world of the Seven Kingdoms, a few people are born with Graces--talents beyond the ordinary. At age 8, Katsa discovers what hers is: killing. Trained by her uncle, the king, to be his enforcer, Katsa also secretly forms The Council, a group dedicated to helping the helpless. But when she rescues an old man who has been kidnapped by a neighboring king, Katsa meets a man who is nearly her match in fighting, and discovers a mystery that threatens all of the kingdoms.